Testimonies for the Church Volume 1 - A New You Ministry

was just what Satan was trying to drive him to take, and he was working through agentsto do this. I was shown that we must continue to publish, and that the Lord wouldsustain us; that those who had been guilty of casting upon us such burdens would haveto see the extent of their cruel course, and come back confessing their injustice, or thefrown of God would be upon them; that it was not against us merely that they hadspoken and acted, but against Him who had called us to fill the place He wished usto occupy; and that all their suspicion, jealousy, and secret influence was faithfullychronicled in heaven, and would not be blotted out until everyone who had taken a partin it should see the extent of his wrong course, and retrace every step.The second volume of the Review was published at Saratoga Springs, New York.In April, 1852, we moved to Rochester, New York. At every step we were obliged tomove out by faith. We were still crippled by poverty, and compelled to exercise themost rigid economy and self-denial. I will give a brief extract from a letter to BrotherHowland’s family, dated April 16, 1852: “We are just getting settled in Rochester. Wehave rented an old house for one hundred and seventy-five dollars a year. We have thepress in the house. Were it not for this, we should have to pay fifty dollars a year foroffice room. You would smile could you look in upon us and see our furniture. Wehave bought two old bedsteads for twenty-five cents each. My husband brought mehome six old chairs, no two of them alike, for which he paid one dollar, and soon hepresented me with four more old chairs without seating, for which he paid sixty-twocents. The frames are strong, and I have been seating them with drilling. Butter isso high that we do not purchase it, neither can we afford potatoes. We use sauce inthe place of butter, and turnips for potatoes. Our first meals were taken on a fireboardplaced upon two empty flour barrels. We are90